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Ann пишет: > > <b>IF</b> > "If you can keep your head when all about you > Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; > If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, > But make allowance for their doubting too; > If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, > Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, > Or being hated, don't give way to hating, > And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: > If you can dream -- and not make dreams your master; > If you can think -- and not make thoughts your aim; > If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster > And treat those two imposters just the same; > If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken > Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, > Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, > And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools; > > If you can make one heap of all your winnings > And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, > And lose, and start again at your beginnings > And never breathe a word about your loss; > If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew > To serve your turn long after they are gone, > And so hold on when there is nothing in you > Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!" > > If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, > Or walk with kings -- nor lose the common touch, > If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, > If all men count with you, but none too much; > If you can fill the unforgiving minute > With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -- > Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, > And -- which is more -- you'll be a Man, my son!" > > R.Kipling >
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